If water is moving where it shouldn't be, shut off the main and then call 801-644-9000. If it's a drip, a slow drain, or a heater you don't trust anymore, we'll get you a plumber on a schedule that suits you.
Every plumbing problem is either taking on water right now or costing you quietly.
Every plumbing problem is either taking on water right now or costing you quietly. Find yours below.
Burst lines, a water heater on the floor, sewage coming up a drain, or no water at all in January. Shut off the main first, then call. We'll get a plumber moving while the water stays off.
Learn more →No hot water, not enough of it, or a puddle under the tank. Age matters more than symptoms here, and most heaters give out by leaking rather than failing loudly. We'll talk repair, replacement, and whether tankless suits your house.
Learn more →One slow sink is a branch problem. Every drain in the house gurgling is a main line problem. A cable clears soft blockages; grease, scale, and roots need a different approach. We start by sorting out which one you have.
Learn more →Multiple fixtures backing up at once means the trouble is out in the yard, not in the house: roots in a joint, a section holding water, or an old clay or cast-iron lateral giving up. A camera shows what is down there instead of guessing.
Learn more →Faucets, toilets, shower valves, hose bibs, and the supply lines behind them. Utah water is hard on all of it. At some point a house stops needing another patch and starts needing pipe replaced, and we'll tell you which you're at.
Learn more →Three steps, and the first one is a phone call.
Is water moving where it should not be, or is this a slow annoyance? That answer decides whether this is tonight or Tuesday.
If it is an active leak, the main goes off first. We will talk you through where to look if you are not sure.
Drain work, water heaters, and repipes are different skills. You get matched to the one your problem actually needs.
Before you start looking up who to call, go find the water. If it is spraying, pouring, or spreading across a floor, the shut-off comes first: the small stop valve at that fixture if the trouble is local, and the main if it isn't. Every minute the water stays on is more water in the floor, and no plumber can undo that part after the fact. Once the flow stops, an emergency turns into a repair, and a repair can be scheduled, quoted, and thought about calmly. One turn of a valve is often the whole difference.
The second question is honest triage: does this need a plumber tonight, or does it need one this week? A supply line that split, a water heater dumping onto the floor, waste backing up into a tub, or no water at all in the middle of a cold snap are all tonight. A toilet that runs, a faucet that drips, a drain that takes its time, a shower valve that has gotten stiff are all this week, and they cost less when nobody is being paged after hours. Call 801-644-9000 either way and say which one you have.
The other category never wakes anybody up. A toilet that cycles on its own every hour. A faucet with a drip you stopped hearing months ago. A shower handle that takes more effort each month. A drain that is a little slower than it was last year. None of it is urgent and all of it is moving in one direction. A running toilet in particular sends water down the drain continuously, not dramatically, just constantly, and it shows up on a bill without ever explaining itself. These are the jobs that stay small only if somebody actually books them.
Utah's water is hard, and hard water is patient. Minerals drop out of solution where water sits still and gets hot, so scale builds inside the water heater, on the seats and cartridges of valves, and across the screens in aerators and shower heads. What you notice is a handle that got stiff, hot water that runs out sooner than it once did, or pressure at one fixture that never quite came back. What actually happened is years of deposits narrowing every place the water has to move through. It is slow, it is normal here, and it is far cheaper to deal with before something seizes.
Salt Lake, Utah, Davis and Weber counties.
Ask whether it is getting worse while you stand there watching it. Water actively spreading, sewage in a fixture, a heater leaking onto the floor, or no water at all in freezing weather are all tonight, and the first move is shutting off the water. A drip, a run, a slow drain, or a stiff handle can wait for a scheduled visit, which costs less than a call at midnight.
Yes, though not urgently. That cycling means water is leaking past the flapper into the bowl and down the drain, and the fill valve keeps topping it back up, continuously, day and night. It is one of the smallest repairs in plumbing and one of the easiest to keep ignoring. Put it on a list with whatever else needs doing and get it all handled in a single visit.
Probably, yes, though the reason is timing rather than performance. A tank that fails does it by leaking, which means the failure arrives with water on the floor on a day nobody picked. Replacing it while it still works means an empty house, a dry floor, and a scheduled appointment. Where the heater sits decides how much that is worth: above finished space is a very different gamble than beside a basement floor drain.
It means the blockage sits in that fixture's own branch line rather than in the line the whole house shares. Local problem, local fix, usually hair, grease, or something that fell in. The story changes the moment two fixtures misbehave at the same time, or a nearby drain reacts when you use a different one. At that point the main line is the suspect and the individual fixtures stop being worth chasing.
Plumbing. Our side is stopping the leak and repairing or replacing whatever failed. Getting a soaked floor, wall, or ceiling properly dried out is a separate trade with separate equipment, and it is worth handling promptly once the plumbing itself is sorted. Tell us what got wet and we will be straight with you about where our job ends.
Tell us which one you have and we will match the plumber to the job.
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